A Trump supporter yells at counterprotesters outdoors the U.S. Supreme Courtroom throughout a protest in Washington Saturday. (Picture: Caroline Brehman by way of Getty Pictures)

The week ended with judges in a number of states rejecting President Donald Trump’s makes an attempt to overturn the election outcomes and the coronavirus pandemic surging, however Trump himself took to Twitter Sunday for one among his now-familiar rants.

Trump admitted defeat to President-elect Joe Biden in a single tweet, falsely claimed the election was rigged in one other and retweeted a supporter who known as Trump’s opponents “anti-American and anti-Christian” ― all earlier than 10 a.m.

He gained as a result of the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned firm, Dominion, with a foul status & bum gear that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I gained by so much!), the Faux & Silent Media, & extra! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020

It’s unclear what Trump hoped to realize from the Tweetstorm. In the meantime, Biden took steps to employees up his incoming administration whereas the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the nation.

The week noticed the best every day variety of new coronavirus instances within the U.S. because the pandemic took off in March. The every day variety of U.S. coronavirus-related deaths rose to a document 1,549 final week.

Biden on Monday introduced members of his coronavirus advisory board, led by David Kessler, a former commissioner of the Meals and Drug Administration below President Invoice Clinton; Marcella Nunez-Smith, a professor of public well being at Yale College; and Vivek Murthy, who served as surgeon common below President Barack Obama.

Board members gave interviews about what to anticipate in coming months and to induce Individuals to take well being security precautions. “The subsequent three to 4 months are going to be, by far, the darkest of the pandemic,” mentioned board member Michael Osterholm, an infectious illness knowledgeable on the College of Minnesota.

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As information shops known as extra states for Biden, Trump supporters gathered in Washington on Saturday in an occasion they known as the “Million MAGA March.”

Occasion organizers cribbed the title from the “Million Man March,” a 1995 demonstration in assist of Black activism that attracted a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals. However the MAGA occasion drew far fewer folks: Solely “just a few thousand” folks confirmed up, together with members of extremist teams linked to white supremacist ideology and violence.

Trump on Saturday morning waved at attendees as his motorcade headed to the golf course. By Saturday evening, a number of Trump supporters clashed violently with counterprotesters, leading to a number of arrests.

By Sunday morning, Trump complained that the media didn’t cowl the “tens of hundreds” of people that attended the occasion, an exaggeration of the particular turnout.

The Faux Information Media hardly even mentioned the tens of hundreds of people who got here to D.C. Shaped organically, and in lots of components of the Nation! https://t.co/wVsDx6GeGc

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020

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